All Is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914 December 20, 2009

The Western Front, Christmas Eve, 1914. Out of the violence of the Great War's trenches comes a silence, then a song as a young German soldier steps into no man's land singing 'Stille Nacht.' Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, and peace. Cantus, Theater Latte Da and Hennepin Theatre Trust present 'All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914' by Peter Rothstein, with musical arrangements by Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach. Through new arrangements of European carols and war-songs, 'All Is Calm' recalls the remarkable World War I truce between Allied Forces and German soldiers in no man's land on Christmas, 1914.